Social center for the homeless. Homeless Shelters
According to various estimates, today there are from 1.5 to 4.2 million homeless people in Russia, which is about three percent of Russians. Their highest concentration is observed in big cities. In Moscow today there are from 10 to 30 thousand homeless people, while a number of experts upper limit raise to 70,100 thousand people.
Of them: 8%
- former residents capital cities that have lost their housing;
71%
- people from the regions who came to Moscow to earn money;
21%
- residents of neighboring republics (mainly Ukraine and Belarus).
According to experts, all these figures are approximate; in fact, it is simply impossible to count all the tramps located in the capital.
Sanitation
Disinfection department No. 6
Address: Yaroslavskoe highway, 9 (open from 9 to 15, Saturday is women's day.)
Sanitary inspection room No. 2
Address: st. Izhorskaya, 21
Sanitation checkpoints of the Central Administrative District
Address: Nizhny Susalny lane, 3; st. Gilyarovsky, 65 building 3
Clinic No. 7
Address: Nizhny Susalny lane, 4
Sanitary graduate of the South-East Administrative District
Address: Kuryanovsky b r, 2/24
In sanitary checkpoints you can undergo sanitary procedures (washing, disinfection, disinsection of body and clothing)
Dosshouses
For homeless Muscovites with documents (passport, extract from the house register, certificate of loss of documents (Form 9), direction) there are night stay homes (NNP)
The DNP requires a certificate of sanitation and a medical certificate from the clinic or from Doctors Without Borders (on cold days they accept everyone with the permission of the Department)
VAO
“Kosino Ukhtomsky” (for adults), st. Mikhelsona, 6, for minors: Muromskaya st. 1, building 1
Company
“Vostryakovo” (for adults), st. Matrosova, 4
Southern Administrative District
“Kanatchikovo” (for adults), Kanatchikovsky proezd, 7,
for minors: Borisovsky pr., 15, building 3
NEAD
“Marfino” (for adults), Gostinichny Proezd, 8a
for minors: st. Dekabristov, 22a
SZAO
for adults: 3rd Silikatny pr., 4, building 1, for minors: st. Novoposelkovaya, 36
SEAD
for minors: st. Novomoroshskaya, 3
South-Western Administrative District
for adults: Golubinskaya st., 32, building 2
At the shelters and sanitary inspection centers, after undergoing sanitary treatment, the homeless person receives a certificate giving the right to a full hot lunch: first, second and third (in disposable dishes).
Centers social adaptation(CSA)
CSA "Filimonki" (accepts only with a permit from the Department social protection population and if there is medical certificate indicating the diagnosis of the main and concomitant tests and the results of tests: chest x-ray, HIV, RV, hepatitis B and C, diphtheria and intestinal group. No contact with infectious patients.)
Address: Moscow region, Leninsky district, pos. Philimoniki
CSA "Lublino"
Address: st. Ilovaiskaya, 2
In case of a threat to life and health, all those in need are accepted, the number of places is 450, meals are provided once a day, fingerprinting is carried out at the Lyublino police station.
Feeding the homeless at churches
Church of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian (Annunciation in Shubin) (Wednesday, Friday from 14.00 to 16.00)
Address: Stoleshnikov lane, 2
Temple of the Assumption Holy Mother of God on Uspensky Vrazhek (Tuesday, Thursday from 15.00)
Address: Gazetny lane, 15
Temple of the Vladimir Icon Mother of God(daily from 13.00 to 15.00)
Address: Moscow region, Mytishchi, Yaroslavskoe highway, 93
Catholic charitable foundation"Caritas"
Address: st. Myasnitskaya, 13
Church of the Ascension of the Lord on the Pea Field (daily at 13:00)
Address: st., Radio, 2
There may be several reasons why you are on this page of the site.
The first reason is that you are a homeless person, you now live in Moscow and you need help.
The second reason is that you are a caring person and want to help a homeless person in Moscow.
Of course, there may be different circumstances, but since you have typed in search engine phrase "helping homeless people in Moscow", it means someone really needs help. In this material, telephone numbers of help services for liches without specific place residence.
This material tells in more detail what kind of help homeless people in Moscow can count on (click on the link and read).
Help for a homeless person in Moscow can be provided in different ways. You can feed a person, you can find a shelter for homeless people. Let's think about what kind of help would be the best for a person who lives on the street? Over the years of living on the street, many people forget about a clean bed, hot and tasty food. It is extremely difficult for such people to return to a normal lifestyle.
The best help for homeless people is to return them to human form!
Exist help centers for homeless people in Moscow and other cities of Russia. These rehabilitation centers are dedicated to helping people find a new life. This process is not quick; the recovery program lasts a year. Yesterday's drunkards in such centers for helping homeless people lead a sober lifestyle, do not smoke, and learn to take care of themselves. Morality and spiritual life are gradually being restored, people are beginning to adapt to new living conditions.
If you are a person who wants to provide effective help to a homeless person in Moscow, help send him to a center for helping homeless people.
There is a good one in Kaluga rehabilitation center"Revival". This center works with those people who have seriously decided to change their lives. Give the person a chance and take him to the homeless assistance center.
Help those who want to change their lives.
If you are homeless and reading this material, if you want to come to our center, we will be happy to help you.
Phone numbers of our center "Vozrozhdenie" (Kaluga):
8-910-914-06-49, 8-953-333-44-47.
Other help for homeless people in Moscow
If for some reason the option of a help center for homeless people is not suitable, then here is more information on the topic.
"Social Patrol"
Since 2009, Social Patrol has been operating in Moscow. These are mobile teams that feed, provide medical care homeless people in need. The organizer of the “Social Patrol” is the Moscow Department of Social Protection and Labor. The department has several adaptation centers to which social security employees invite homeless people. Here is information about what needs to be done for the authorities to officially recognize a homeless person as needing help.
Telephone "Social Patrol": 8 495 720-15-08, 8 903 720-15-08
Social patrol often cooperates with friendly rehabilitation and adaptation centers. We know that one of their regular partners is the Noah workhouse for the homeless (organized by volunteers of the Orthodox Church).
Telephone number of the Noah workhouse: 8 926 236-54-22
Homeless assistance service "Mercy" (Moscow)
The friendly team of the Mercy help service has often been working for a long time and has earned special authority among its clients. Volunteers of the Mercy service often travel outside of Moscow (where Social Patrol does not go).
The priorities of this movement:
Helping people in social welfare agencies and hospitals,
Assistance in document recovery,
They can help you get home
- ... and most importantly... Departure to the specified place upon call from caring people!!!
Address and telephone number of "Mercy": Moscow, st. Nikoloyamskaya, 57 bldg. 1, tel: 8-985-764-49-11, 8-495-764-49-11
It happens that a homeless person does not particularly want to change his life. It’s unfortunate, but many choose the street. In winter, they look for some kind of shelter for the homeless. Our team often picks up such poor people from the streets in the cold (and in the summer too). Time passes and they return to their “dustbin”.
If a homeless person does not feel your love, it will be difficult for them to change.
But those who see the sincerity of their intentions to help, who have not felt kindness and warmth in relationships for a long time, but today felt them - such a person finds himself in the center of helping homeless people and gradually changes.
Shelters for homeless people in Moscow
In this section we will soon post contacts of several shelters for homeless people that provide free assistance to homeless people in Moscow.
Help people and God will help you!
Volunteer today - who is he?
Temperature records last days V central lane Russia has become a real test for the homeless. And if in Greece, for example, due to “unprecedented frosts” (that is, snowfall) to save the homeless, the metro was opened around the clock on these cold days, then in Russia no special measures of assistance have yet been offered, although only for new year holidays in Moscow, 190 people were injured, and two died from hypothermia.
But the problem isn't just staying warm. Every day of a homeless person is a struggle for survival. Finding a place where you can stay warm, spend the night, get food and some clothes, get medical care, and ideally also wash - all this seems like an insurmountable task for a person without a penny of money in his pocket. But in reality, there are enough places in Moscow where all this can be done completely free of charge, but not all homeless people know about it. Brief instructions on survival - in The Insider material
“I’ve been on the street since childhood,” says homeless Dmitry Nikiforov, a volunteer of the network of organizations “If there is no home...”, “in 1989, my family and I came to Moscow; I myself am from Baku. We came because a war started in Azerbaijan. Here I went to school, and then my father was killed, my mother started drinking. And there were three of us brothers in the family. They kicked me out of the apartment. Now I understand that my father simply came to an empty apartment, paid the cops, and that’s how we started living. Of course, we didn’t have any registration. We were kicked out of the apartment. There is nowhere to live: basements, train stations. And my brothers are small, I need to eat something. He made a living as best he could: somewhere you steal something, somewhere you earn something. That's how we lived. Mom died. Then I worked, even found and rented housing. Then he sat. I came out - no documents, now I’m working again and helping the homeless. There are ideas to create jobs for the homeless - a sewing workshop and a carpentry workshop, because mostly the homeless are those who came from places not so remote. Relatives, for example, while they were imprisoned, their apartments were sold, they have nowhere to return, and it is now very difficult for a homeless person to get a job in Moscow.”
According to the Lyublino Center for Statistics, there are now about 16 thousand homeless people in Moscow. Approximately 80% of people without a fixed place of residence came to the capital from the regions, mainly from those places where there is almost no work or from the so-called “depressed” areas. For them, the process of socialization turns out to be quite difficult, since from Moscow such homeless people are sent to where they were registered last place residence.
Where to eat:
There are a lot of such places in Moscow. One of the sites where a homeless person can get food is located at Three Stations Square. It is organized by a group of volunteers from the “If there is no home...” network. “We feed the homeless there on Thursdays. There is also a Salvation Army day center and a Salvation Hangar tent there. The volunteers there are homeless people, and they, together with social workers, prepare food, go to the Square of Three Stations and distribute it. It helps people come out on the other side. Many people later become social workers thanks to such projects,” says activist Nadezhda Klyueva. Dmitry Nikiforov also often takes part in this project and enthusiastically talks about how he and his volunteers make sandwiches and prepare tea for the homeless. During this entire process, there is a constant dialogue between the participants of the organization “If there is no home...” and those they help, which, according to Dmitry, is the most important thing in this project.
Where to wash and get medical care:
Destation No. 4 always smells of urine and caked mud. Even when there are no homeless people crowding around here to shower, change clothes, or get medical help. “It’s a homeless place,” says someone behind me in the crowd, leaving the tunnel near Kurskaya.
And during office hours the smell is even stronger. At the very exit from the metro, the silhouettes are sorting something through their black plastic bags, another figure is approaching, slowly chewing a piece of cracker. Soon there is a line. Burnt, bearded, on crutches, haggard, in oversized sweatshirts, ridiculous caps, but all with big bags - plastic bags in both hands. Mostly men. They talk among themselves, someone takes out a mobile phone and begins to press the buttons with effort. Apparently he dials the number from memory.
Here, during cold weather, you can sometimes get something warm from clothes. They also provide free medical care here, albeit basic, but there are also places where the homeless can even qualify for free dentistry.
Where to stay overnight:
Homeless people can spend the night in government-owned social centers, where not everyone wants to go, since the conditions of detention there are more similar to the conditions of serving a sentence, and they are mainly located on the outskirts of the city.
True, if a homeless person has little money, he can pay for a bed and stay in a so-called hostel; no one will force him to work there.
There are also centers where they provide social assistance, which includes sending home, issuing a certificate of loss of documents, assistance in renewing a passport, assistance in finding a job. social shelters for the homeless, as well as assistance in finding employment.
Most often, people without a fixed place of residence do not have the opportunity to call and somehow contact loved ones when they need help. For this purpose, in the north of Moscow there are several so-called public telephones. They can be used for free for calls to landline and mobile numbers in the Moscow region. There is even Wi-Fi in the cabins (surprisingly, homeless people with smartphones are also sometimes found).
Of course, all the infrastructure described above is in best case scenario will allow the homeless to live a little longer, but does not provide the opportunity for full socialization. By “saving” on the homeless, the state actually saves nothing, since they create an additional burden on police officers, doctors and social services. In the majority developed countries To solve this problem, there are special social programs that make it easier for homeless people to obtain housing. For example, in Salt Lake City, a program has been launched since 2015, within the framework of which a homeless person is provided with housing ready for living (with a refrigerator, microwave, etc.), calculating that this turns out to be cheaper for the budget than the additional burden on government agencies (ambulance , police, prisons) arising from homelessness.
“Right now there is not a single institution that could accept homeless mothers with children.”Director of the Lyublino social adaptation center Konstantin KAZANTSEV told how, in his opinion, the problem of homeless people can be solvedREFERENCE. The Lyublino Center for Social Adaptation has been operating in Moscow for 7 years and is the largest institution for helping the homeless in Russia: more than 400 people can live here. The center’s specialists help the homeless in restoring documents, finding employment, and even obtaining housing: during its existence, more than 70 people have received apartments. Currently, about 100 wards of the center are employed in permanent job at several factories in Moscow.
Among other activities, we are developing a project to create so-called social villages. Possible here different variants. Any suggestions Orthodox Church on the creation of settlements for the homeless. Eat interesting idea creating some kind of cooperatives for the homeless, where they could earn their own apartment for several years. We strongly support these steps.
Recently, the Moscow government adopted a resolution on the creation of so-called social residential buildings, in which it is planned to provide apartments to homeless people who have passed full course rehabilitation, including labor rehabilitation. But it turned out to be not so simple, and for now this program has stopped. And it's not even a matter of money. Money would probably have been found and abandoned houses would have been restored. But what next? After all, for complete rehabilitation, ideology is also necessary. These people will create families, children will be born in these families, and in a social housing building a person does not have the right to inherit housing. And then what to do with these children? A new generation of homeless people? Now we have single mothers with children living in our center. And we are forced to force them to give up their children. This is scary, but now there is not a single institution that could accept homeless mothers with children. During the existence of our center, seven children were born within our walls. Now they are all in orphanages. Some are simply abandoned by their parents, some are visited in the orphanage. But, you must agree, what kind of mother is this who appears once a month?
How to solve the problem of housing for the homeless? There are many small and medium-sized cities in Russia that have housing, but production is at a standstill due to a lack of labor. On the other hand, we have a workforce that does not have housing; it just needs to be organized and sent to the right regions. But the issue of accommodation for such people has not yet been resolved. Even our institution does not hold people for more than one year, not to mention the night shelters and hospitals that simply push them back onto the streets weak people. In my opinion, creating houses of industriousness would solve this problem. After all, people not only worked there and received money for it, but also lived permanently.
Today we will talk about what kind assistance to homeless people (homeless people) turns out to be in Moscow and the cities of the Moscow region, let’s introduce the organizations and volunteer teams that do this.
Let's start with statistics. According to estimates by the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection in the Russian capital in 2015, there were about 11 thousand homeless people. Officially. Let's add those who were not counted, and we get the number of a small provincial town. A lot of. But they say that the number of homeless people is decreasing. Let's trust the statistics from the Department.
How free assistance is organized for homeless people in Moscow:
City program "Social Patrol".
The Social Patrol program, which was launched several years ago, found a response in the hearts of many people who are not indifferent to those in need. Social security employees use 30 cars and 5 buses to deliver food, warm clothes, and provide medical assistance to areas where homeless people are concentrated. 2 centers have already been opened social assistance and adaptation of homeless people. A good start.
For those who need help from social protection, we leave a link to the website page of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Moscow, where you can find information on the procedure for recognizing homeless citizens as needing social services.
Help service for homeless people “Mercy”.
For more than ten years, the Orthodox aid service “Mercy” has been working with homeless people. This team has 3 main directions in which they move:
- preventative work at city stations.